Miscellaneous

The Blue letter Bible phone app has a great daily reading program, and seeing as how I’ve just finished the Jewish book order one, I felt compelled to share some thoughts about it.
The Law
The first five book...

As folks continue to tell me that John Piper is really just saying what the best lights of the Reformed tradition have always said, I keep thinking of the following transcript. In fact, it was while listening t...

If you were to reduce salvation to only three components, how would you do it? If you were asked, could you tell someone in three points what they need to know to be saved?
No doubt the first thing someone n...

The Greek word for gospel is euangelion. Eu is the prefix for good, and angelion is the word for message (think angel—a messenger). When we engage in ev-angel-ism, we are therefore telling people the good news ...

Recommended Reading: Reformed Seminarian

Affirming the Reformed Distinctive Having outlined the several aspects pertaining to the nature of Christ’s atonement (found here and here) we come now to address the heart of the Reformed distinctive, or that which separates our view from all other schools of thought. To state it concisely, the biblical and Reformed doctrine is that God had […]

The Applicability of the Atonement In our previous post (found here) we saw that the design of the atonement should always be distinguished from the question of its inherent value. Following the Hodges, moreover, we find that the same thing is true concerning its applicability. But what exactly does the term “applicability” mean, and more […]

Isolating the Question For the most part it has been customary for Reformed theologians to isolate the design of the atonement from all other related considerations, including its nature. This can be seen in the way Charles Hodge introduces the question in his Systematic Theology. Speaking of its design he writes, “The question therefore, does […]